Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lambridge: Why It Happens
Keep the motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, if your motor hasn't run, it is emptied and fully purged where the vehicle sits in Lambridge. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels near Lambridge and Grosvenor carry, with diesel for the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around Lambridge?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Woodlands Park, or on the way home in the car park at The Rose & Crown.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new car.
Third, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. It takes a few seconds, be it in Lower Swainswick or right in the centre of Lambridge.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Lambridge forecourt or a drive over in Fairfield Park, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Bath Spa? Ask whoever drove the car last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
When the light goes on, wherever across Somerset, follow this routine.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Pitman Court.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through its built-in spout.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel filler remained shut the whole time. After that, start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Skip step five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Lambridge?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of your tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Sainsbury's, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump. On your own drive in Lambridge? Then the vehicle remains where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Lambridge sits under 10 miles from the M4; on it, take the first exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Lambridge is smaller work than a trip of under 3 miles towards Bath, and so say.
Lambridge: what happens when our technicians get there
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near New Oriel Hall, or by St Saviours Junior Church School. The replies determine the work and the price, so our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. No one sets off until you've had our price by phone.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. The engine is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before we go.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor has not run need roughly half an hour once our technicians are there. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Lambridge, for a moment
Lambridge is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Somerset, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 4620 residents. Lambridge lies close to the city of Bath, approximately 1.3 miles away, and is near other local places such as Lower Swainswick and Larkhall. Lambridge is relatively low-lying, with an elevation of around 33 metres above sea level. Lambridge is also within commuting distance of London, at around 95.6 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Lambridge included
As a residential suburb, Lambridge has the same vans as surrounding places — Larkhall, Bailbrook — right through BA postcodes and the wider area beyond. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BA1 7.
Shifting the car is not needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Alice Park, a side street near The Rondo Theatre: our technicians drain it where it stands. Awkward to explain, like the back of Larkhall United Reformed Church? Close to a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
In short, for Lambridge drivers
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Somerset.